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Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

By Philip Hoehn

Contributed to by Claire Englander and John Ridener

Claire Englander, University of California Library, Berkeley cengland at library berkeley edu
John Ridener, University of California Library, Berkeley jridener at library berkeley edu

Central America & West Indies (see also Latin America and North America)

Central America

América Central : cobertura vegetal y de suelo = vegetation/land cover

Centers of Plant Diversity : Middle America & Caribbean Islands

Central America Land Cover and Contour Lines

Coastal Systems of Central America

Hydrology & Coastal Systems of Central America

Mountains and Mountain Forests Central America (Also covers Mexico, UNEP-WCMC)

Belize

[Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA)]

Bonaire

Bonaire : Landscape Ecological Vegetation Map

Dominica

Dominica Land Cover

Dominica : National Parks & Forest Reserves ; Generalized Land Use Map ; Generalized Vegetation Map

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic Forest Types (1922)

Dominican Republic : Vegetation Types

Dominican Republic : Vegetation Types (small)

Hispaniola : Vegetation Map Showing the General Distribution of Dry, Moist, and Pine Forests (Modified from Holdridge, 1945)

El Salvador

Vegetation and Land Use

Guatemla

Project For A Sustainable Peten Forest: The Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peten, Guatemala

Haiti

Haiti Vegetation Map

Hispaniola : Vegetation Map Showing the General Distribution of Dry, Moist, and Pine Forests (Modified from Holdridge, 1945)

Jamaica

Jamaica Vegetation and Land Cover

Nicaragua

Nicaragua Land Utilization and Vegetation Map, 1979

Panama

Mapa de vegetación de Panama

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Terrestrial Conservation Targets

St. Eustatius

St. Eustatius : Vegetation Map

St. Kitts and Nevis

Landsat-derived Land Use Maps of St. Kitts and Nevis Islands : [Conservation Opportunities Where Sugar Cane Cultivation Has Become Unprofitable]

St. Maarten

St. Maarten : Vegegation Map

St. Vincent

St. Vincent : Vegetation Map

West Indies

Caribbean Vegetation Atlas / The Nature Conservancy (Includes vegatation maps of Andros (Bahamas), Anegada, Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Barbados, Barbuda, Bimini (Bahamas), Bonaire, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grand Caymen, Grenada, Grenada Grenadines, Guadalupe, Jamaica, Little Caymen, Martinique, Monserrat, Nevis, Saba, St. Barthelemy, St. Eustasius, St. John, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent, St. Vincent Grenadines, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad and Virgin Gorda)

Greater Antilles Vegetation

Lesser Antilles Vegetation

Mountains and Mountain Forests Caribbean (UNEP-WCMC)

Types of Coastal Systems of the Central Caribbean Marine Ecoregions

Vegetation Map of Latin America / JRC Ispra (Downloadable datasets in various formats -- in "Products" section)

Europe (see also Eurasia)

Europe

Atlas Florae Europaeae

Atlas of Genus Thalictrum

Botanish-Geographisch-Statistische Karte von Europa, 1840 (In: Dr. Heinrich Berghaus Physikalischer Atlas, 1849)

Distribution of Major Habitats

Forest probability of Europe